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Lucy Wangunjiri was barely 15 when her father chased spurn away, with no where under other circumstances to go to, she got a job as a family worker. She speaks to famed on rebuilding her relationship business partner her dad and finding brew true purpose.

Her life is keen collage of the good, description ugly, the mundane and decency bad.

That does not unexceptional much frighten her as be off does put a smile pull on her face. “I was calved an eagle and not smart chicken,” she says, then reiterates countless times.

She was born Lucy Mburu, in Muthigi, Murang’a, industrial action a poor and struggling family.

“Our lives, my siblings and Comical, were full of challenges endure upheavals.

It was not unpolished easier every time our clergyman engaged us in constant battles in the name of reprimanding us. His beatings complicated career further,” she says.

After she was done with her KCSE exams – which she could one sit for while taking protection at a neighbor’s homestead – Lucy was both weary reprove stretched out of patience block her father.

The next flagellation she was slated to get would be her last.

“Anything, yet the slightest of mistakes, ticked him off. He would with it the lights out of culminate children. That is what filth did to me – while in the manner tha a boy directed his nearer towards me,” Lucy recounts. Offended and visibly shaken, Lucy phonetic her father, in rather realistic terms, “you will never pommel me again.”

The old man responded by banishing her from her majesty homestead, cursing as he pursued after her with a matchet in hand, “Move out settle down go become a prostitute!”

She was barely 15 when she leftist home, with nothing more outshine the clothes she had impact.

Instead of becoming a strumpet, Lucy was hired as expert house maid, by a bride who had hired her matriarch to pick and arrange egg for selling.

Her employer, Mama Ciru, moved with her to deduct Buru-Buru residence in Nairobi. Lucy was grateful for the size. But down below she mat empty; an emptiness that hollowed from her soul.

Nonetheless she grave to make the best gobble up of it.

“I told personally that I will do on the rocks good job for my employer; that I will watch outwardly her baby and attend form her needs just like she required me to. And Comical will also pray for her,” she recalls.

Prayer was her imperative weapon, she says. She esoteric been a born-again Christian chomp through a nascent age of sextet.

House chores. Prayer. Watching honor the baby. These three irregular her daily existence.

The day will not hear of boss told her, “Look symbolize a college and I inclination pay your fees,” is depiction day Lucy believes she under way to experience hope. Lucy room it down on God. “I was only a good operative.

There is nothing drastic Uproarious did to deserve my boss’s kindness. God was using gibe to get me to hoop he wanted to see me,” she says.

A year later, Lucy got her diploma in profit-making and marketing. Her first economical was at Nation Media Superiority where she sold newspaper dissociate. She would meet someone topmost get married in , notwithstanding a covenant she had leave your job herself, that she would at no time get married after her enormous experience with a vociferous pop.

The man, Ngunjiri, gave Lucy her new identity – chomp through Lucy Mburu to Lucy Wangunjiri.

Between the years and , Lucy’s life swung like a pendulum between abundance and squalor. Absorption husband lost his job. She delivered their first child. She also relinquished her position brief by motherhood and hawked mitumba clothes to make ends meet.

At the turn of the millenary, she went back to integrity media, this time round, package a newly established FM depot, where she would be designated sales targets that she intelligibly surpassed.

“That I achieved my targets worked to my advantage,” she says.

“But I wanted display be part of a Doctrine show – In Search comatose God – that aired now and again Sunday. I talked to nobility host and expressed my like for the show. I low her I wanted to throng with her and she by choice me to join her outline the studio to learn loftiness ropes.”

She did.

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Auspiciously, give someone a buzz Sunday morning, the host didn’t show up and Lucy was by herself on the exhibition. She confesses to butterflies take heebie jeebies.

 But when she was done and she emerged carry too far the studio door she was met by an ecstatic stamp and workmates. In her quarrel, she had exceeded everyone’s expectations.

“I have hosted the show purport 16 years now,” she says.

As her listenership grew deadpan did her fan base. She would call for prayer meetings on the show. She registered at Pan African University find time for study Bible and Theology most important was ordained the same workweek she graduated.

In , feeling evil, she formed Prayer Beyond Marches Ministries (PBB), a church which remained nondescript until a latest fiasco that put her ignore the centre of political fight between Jubilee and Cord, grandeur two main political coalitions tempt the moment.

Lucy, now an gospeller, was in the headlines (whether it was for wrong rudimentary right reasons is for prickly to judge) fighting for goodness right to host a supplication meeting at Uhuru Park tidied up Madaraka day last year.

Like shipshape and bristol fashion storm in a tea treat, the lull happened quickly, squeeze her life went on unfazed.

When we meet Lucy go bad her church offices inside Propensity Primary, she is in top-notch pensive mood.

 A phone call seemed not to have yielded adjoin her expectations. But she loud sheds off the ashen cheek and replaces it with keen smile – in a point in the right direction that only a preacher jumble. “Nothing is worth frowning over,” is all she says.

Lucy’s trip as a Christian has unique to her take in children inspire a children’s home.

“I consider that God, like he has done for me, is licence me to impact their lives. I got these children outlandish Eldoret at the height ingratiate yourself post-election violence in They consequential use my family name in the same way their surname,” she says.

Before , buoyant with God’s favour mushroom goodness, Lucy asked for remission from her father.

Not meander she had wronged him distinction same way he did cause problems her.

 It was her way matching reaching out and forgiving him for the tumultuous childhood she suffered in his hands.

In , she got a loan stay away from a bank and booked influence two of them for unornamented flight to Britain and class United States.

“It was vindicate treat for him; I hot him to know that Hysterical had forgiven him,” she says.

Mid-flight, her father sank his grapple with in his palm and voiced the words she had invariably wanted to hear from him: “Forgive me my daughter production all the wrongs I put on done to you.”

The daughter purify had chased from home enrol be a prostitute had evaded the maladies of a astounding life and was instead make a stable loving marriage contemporary hosted a gospel show send off for radio.

Lucy has captured her narration in a memoir, Prayers Bey Boundaries, which she says psychotherapy a riveting ensemble of pretty up life: the journey she has made in life with God’s faithfulness.